Things were accepted in the past that are not accepted now, things like slavery, burning witches, and so forth. So, is there anything that is commonly accepted today that future generations will condemn us for? An interesting article published a few days ago asks precisely that question. The author, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, argues for the following candidates: Our breathtakingly enormous prison system, the ugliness and brutality of industrial meat production, the way we ignore and institutionalize our elderly, and our destruction of the environment.
Seems like a good list to me.
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sounds like a good list to me too.
also, that pink goo pic... I saw that on facebook, but never found out what it was. oh my gross. I always knew mcnuggets were something disgusting, but I really didn't want to know what. I'd like to say I'll never let my kids eat one again...
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